farmerman wrote:Georgeob--can a 777 land fully by wire?
McT- we made a haggis the other year, vile is a word that I use to describe it.
Quote:We see no reason at all why people cannot eat haggis safely, so long as manufacturers follow hygiene legislation
Insult the national dish, would ye?
Farmerman, you are a marked man. May your crowdie curdle, your spurtle splinter and your cockie-leekie stop leaking.
When I was a boy (1950s in west Scotland), the milkman, the bobbin-stick man and the rag and bone man all came round on carts pulled by Clydesdales.
Been a few changes since them days.
Mc Tee-have I just been cursed? COOOWALL. I always wanted to get cursed in a Santaria ceremony, so some pissed off Scotsman's curse
will have to stand for present until my ultimate voodoo dream is realized.
PS , ID rather eat nachos than anything called Bang Wallies or Puddly squeakies.
farmerman,
Perhaps we both should tread more carefully - these Brits are an odd lot - a little testy & schoolmasterish when confronted with a careless typing/spelling error, and seriously hostile when inadequate reverence is shown to the oddly named (and even more oddly tasting) national dishes. We are not members of the tribe and will not be allowed to join in on their mutual sniping and self mockery. They are a cranky crew, but engaging and worthy of a degree of affection & respect - however unlikely they may be to accept either.
Whatever can you mean, George? We are all very relaxed over here.
It's hardly my fault that fm can't make a haggis properly. He should stick to his hillbilly home cookin'.
farmerman wrote:...cursed in a Santaria ceremony...
Is that not a Mexican-looking guitar player?
Or some Chrismas opera?
Either way, Burns' Night will be better.
I hesitated quite some time. But now I really think: you should know it:
Germany Makes Fun of England's Football Woes
This should be good! (I love it when Walter comes out from under his 'nice guy' shell.) :wink:
georgeob1 wrote:This should be good! (I love it when Walter comes out from under his 'nice guy' shell.) :wink:
That's all and only reasoned in that 3rd-no-goal.
I'm waiting for Spendy's psycho-analysis of this.
With particular reference to, if England had succeeded and Germany hadn't......
Walter,
I think the last post was a thinly disguised warning about what might happen to you if you keep up the stuff about the European football finals.
No Spendy yet.
Let me just say that I think this is a jolly bad show. We do love to poke fun at the Germans when we can (not much to laugh about at the moment
) but dash it all, it's jolly unsporting of them to do it back to us. We're the ones with the sense of humour, remember.
Background information for Yanks who play at faked machismo sports.
Walter remains bitter and twisted to this day about England's third goal in extra-time in the 1966 World Cup Final which he believes, as do most Germans, (well they would wouldn't they), should not have counted on the grounds that the ball had not crossed the line despite the referee and the linesman and the majority of people present having seen with their own eyes that it did so and it being in all the papers that such was the case.
His satirical post is simply an anger mamagement exercise which is difficult to understand in view of the loss of revenue and opportunities for cultural exchanges which will result from England not qualifying for the 2008 finals in Austria and Switzerland due to the idiotic behaviour of the referee's panel and their general all round incompetence regarding cash flow and associated matters.
As two expert Americans are here might I ask them what is the most humiliating thing that can happen to a batter in a baseball game leaving out things like his cod-piece falling off. What aspect of his performance could cause his Mom to crawl behind the sofa weeping into the hands her face is buried in.
I've seen the match live, on BBC, in black & white only.
That might excuse my opinion - which nevertheless is totally correct.
Spendi's last post seemed a bit forced, lacking the twists & turns that usually accompany his prose. Is it the sting of defeat? - or something else?
Walter, of course, is at his absolute worst in moments of triumph. ( Hell, he's bad enough even when he catches me making a very small error in an otherwise beautifully formed argument.)
I will continue to relate peaceably to my European friends - no matter how much they squabble with each other.
georgeob1 wrote:I will continue to relate peaceably to my European friends - no matter how much they squabble with each other.
That's very much appreciated - though I've learnt never to take a word from a naval aviator at face value. :wink:
georgeob1 wrote:A wise policy !!!
No. A burnt child dreads the fire.
Here's something I read in The Spectator.
The city fathers of Oxford, a historic English university town, have before them a proposal to allow the muslim community to broadcast (by loudspeakers, and loudly no doubt) the call to prayer from their mosque.
I believe a new mosque is being built, one with a large dome and a high minaret.
The call to prayer takes place five times a day, first one at dawn, which in summer is something like 5am.
I imagine most of the Oxford citizens will not want that, whether they be Christian or whatever.
So: do they refuse this request? And if they do, should the churches be accordingly stopped from ringing their bells on Sunday and on other occasions, which they have been doing for what, 800 years?
